Galactic Center in Thermal IR
noirlab_gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001 September 1st, 2004
Credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/Abu Team
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy showing emission from hot gas that will either form stars or feed the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Technical Details: The image quality for this Brackett-alpha (hydrogen) line image is FWHM=0.35 arcsec. This image was obtained with the "Abu" thermal-infrared camera built by the National Optical Astronomy Observatory.
Provider: NOIRLab
Image Source: https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001/
Curator: NSF's NOIRLab, Tucson, AZ, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001
- Subject Category
- Subject Name
- Galactic Center
- Credits
- International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/Abu Team
- Release Date
- 2004-09-01T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://noirlab.edu/public/images/gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Gemini South
- Instrument
- Abu
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Infrared
- Bandpass
- Brackett-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 4051
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 266.417594202, -29.0070757135
- Reference Dimension
- 512.0, 512.0
- Reference Pixel
- 256.0, 256.0
- Scale
- -2.33618562848e-05, 2.33618562848e-05
- Rotation
- -0.66000000000000025
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- NSF's NOIRLab
- URL
- https://noirlab.edu
- Name
- Gemini Observatory
- Telephone
- Address
- 950 North Cherry Ave.
- City
- Tucson
- State/Province
- AZ
- Postal Code
- 85719
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- NSF's NOIRLab
- Publisher ID
- noirlab
- Resource ID
- gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001
- Resource URL
- http://noirlab.edu/public/media/archives/images/original/gemini-20080825-galactic-center-abu-0001.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-04-20T16:17:22-10:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
